Mauser totin' Man with No Name

44caliberkid · December 28, 2006, 06:36:44 PM

While researching some load data for the 7.62x25 cartridge, I ran across this German (I think?) website with movie posters for a Clint Eastwood type cowboy shooting a broom handle mauser.

http://home.snafu.de/l.moeller/Englisch/7,63_Mauser.html

It would make a fun main stage gun.

Major 2 · December 28, 2006, 07:46:18 PM

Eastwood type ?

He in fact did use a Mauser C96 in Joe Kidd

44caliberkid · December 29, 2006, 08:11:14 AM

I recall that, although he "borrowed" the pistol from Don Stroud, after his untimely demise. Joe Kidd was also quite a different character than that portrayed in the spagetti westerns.

Major 2 · December 29, 2006, 08:37:13 AM

Your doing better than me....
All I recall was the Mauser C96.... no plot , aside from Clint no other cast

nothing !

Just the Mauser C96 tunnel vision & the title .... chalk it up to old-timers disease
Oh ! also I seem to recall it was a magic Mauser C96, in that it could fire more rounds than the magazine held.

Delmonico · December 29, 2006, 09:01:56 AM

Mauser pistol, I don't 'member no Mauser pistol in that movie, a 1899 Savage seems to come to mind though.

Grizzle Bear · December 29, 2006, 12:57:12 PM

The best part of "Joe Kidd" was driving the locomotive through the saloon in order to catch the bad guys by surprise.

It sure worked!

Grizzle Bear

Delmonico · December 29, 2006, 09:51:43 PM

Quote from: Grizzle Bear on December 29, 2006, 12:57:12 PM
The best part of "Joe Kidd" was driving the locomotive through the saloon in order to catch the bad guys by surprise.

It sure worked!

Grizzle Bear

I must have missed that part, I was to interested in the 1899 Savage, BTW I like 1899 Savages.

Gripmaker · December 29, 2006, 10:15:27 PM

Didn't Eastwood also make an "impossibly long" shot in that movie with a scoped rifle of some kind? Seem to remember a scene where a rider falls from his horse and then the sound of a rifle shot and the camera panning to a butte about two miles away. Next scene was Eastwood standing on a butte with rifle in hand. Weeelllll, maybe I dreamed that.

Delmonico · December 30, 2006, 12:46:17 AM

I may have to watch it again when it comes on, it has been years, but I am guessing it was the scoped Savage 1899. I don't remember the exact time frame of that movie, but it sees to me to be right at the pre-WWI era.

Major 2 · December 30, 2006, 09:01:50 AM

Quote from: Delmonico on December 30, 2006, 12:46:17 AM
I may have to watch it again when it comes on, it has been years, but I am guessing it was the scoped Savage 1899. I don't remember the exact time frame of that movie, but it sees to me to be right at the pre-WWI era.

train

"I donnnn remember nough stinkin train..."
funny ! the only the guns

seems though it was Punitive Raid Era (Poncho Villa 'ish ) or just before...

Guess I better rent it

Will Ketchum · December 30, 2006, 11:37:18 AM

There was actually 2 scoped rifles. One the long range sniper guy used while on the butte. He was knocking off Kidd's companions so he opened the case put the gun together and took the shot, killing the sniper. I get a chuckle out of that shot every time I watch it. Shooting an unfamiliar rifle at an unknown distance without sighting in the rifle was a scratch shot if there ever was one. Still a neat shot in a pretty good movie.

Will Ketchum

St. George · December 30, 2006, 01:37:17 PM

The rifle in question was a Remington-Keene - and though I've got to admit that I only saw that movie in the theater when it first came out - the weapon struck a chord at the time.

Interesting rifle - the Remington-Keene - a bolt-action, firing a .45-70, and featuring a big exposed hammer.

Fun to shoot, too, as a buddy of mine got a fairly decent one from an estate sale and we had to try it out before it was re-sold.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

Will Ketchum · December 30, 2006, 07:09:54 PM

Ah yes, the Remington Keen. The bad guy in "Crossfire Trail" used one. It belonged to Kenny Howell and I actually got to shoot it after the movie was made.

Will Ketchum

Trinity · December 31, 2006, 09:22:06 AM

Quote from: 44caliberkid on December 28, 2006, 06:36:44 PM
While researching some load data for the 7.62x25 cartridge, I ran across this German (I think?) website with movie posters for a Clint Eastwood type cowboy shooting a broom handle mauser.

http://home.snafu.de/l.moeller/Englisch/7,63_Mauser.html

It would make a fun main stage gun.

That movie is known to the English speaking world as The Great Silence . It was/is a highly regarded Spaghetti Western, but not one of my favorites because it has a European ending... depressing. You might recognize Klaus Kinski (The face on the left) as the hunch-back in For a Few Dollars More .